Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks